Talk:Heron cylinder head

Don't forget the lovely Alfasud, which also had Heron type heads!

Air cooled radials
A recent addition uses this source to claim that the Heron head was invented by Gibson & Heron at the RAE in 1918. Now Heron is an uncommon name. I'd expect there to be some involvement, whether now or later. However I'm unconvinced that this Gibson-Heron head is at all related to the Heron head.

The Gibson-Heron head is a design for sealing the head of an air-cooled radial engine, so as to give good thermal transfer and thus avoid valve overheating.

The Heron head, as used by Jaguar, is a design for combustion chambers.

Is there really any overlap? Andy Dingley (talk) 10:36, 29 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I too am unaware that the Gibson-Heron head is the same as a Heron head. Arrivisto (talk) 10:33, 16 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I've invoked WP:BOLD and deleted the Gibson-Heron bit. 86.162.138.203 (talk) 13:15, 11 November 2015 (UTC)


 * See; Samuel Dalziel Heron